Complaints about Shimon Peres and sexual abuse have been coming in for  weeks since Colette Avital first confessed that he assaulted her.  It’s so strange to me, because I spent those years being assaulted by so many people of authority, but never by Peres.  

Maybe he had no opportunity and maybe I wasn’t attractive enough for him…  But I found him such a wonderful, brilliant man – with a great need to be loved.   I’m not defending him, but I am separating what he might have done sexually from what he wanted to do to save the country, to save the world.